Kaymyth

Lactose intolerance sucks, but there are ways to deal with it and still have your tasty dairy products. Mine kicked in around age 30. Two things you can try to narrow it down: 1) Drink a glass of milk by itself and see what happens. 2) Get some Lactaid pills and take one with breakfast and see if you have no stomachache that day. (I recommend #2.)

I am verra curious, myself.

You should see the shelf that holds my RPG books. It is...rather full.

It's international. Heck, in the States some people are so paranoid about the number 13 that large hotels skip the floor. Eh, I think my entire family used up years' worth of Friday the 13th miserableness back in 2003.

Imma just drop this right here... Bolded the relevant information.

There are other things that indicate maybe she didn't research things fully. Like details that suggest she doesn't realize that Washington DC and Washington state are on complete opposite sides of the country.

Not that I'm aware of, but it's worth putting onto the Ultimate List of Questions to Ask Brandon thread.

Well. I wasn't gonna be the one to say it outright, but... (Perhaps Certain People are correct. Perhaps I am too polite.)

Twimom clearly has a problem with people who are smarter than she is.

Dear sweet baby Heru, that's awful. Though for once, the comments are pure gold. "They should have gone with -Copperfield -Barnum -Houdini -Blaine (the evil Slytherin equivalent)" "I would beg the Sorting Hat to put me in Tellerpenn"

Amusingly, this also works for White Anglo-Saxon Pagan. I get where you're going with this, and you're spot-on with a lot of things. I think a lot of writers/showrunners/whatever get caught up in making their Z-trait character the Zest of Zs, can you see how Z they are? SEE WE MADE A CHARACTER WITH Z TRAIT AREN'T WE PROGRESSIVE GIVE US COOKIES. And bisexuality is seriously the redheaded stepchild of the LGBT+ spectrum. They get so much crap from everybody.

Oh, come on, it's not like we're any better whenever a new Sanderson novel comes out.

Thunderstorms are the best. (It's a good thing I think so, 'cause I live in Tornado Alley.) Boo on the constant drizzle; that's no fun at all. But congrats! That sounds exciting.

I...might be approaching that state of being with the Roundtable Rival music video. Maybe.

As okay as one gets when one has broken ribs.

So, while I was out of town this weekend, my father-in-law had a mishap while mowing his lawn. He stepped in a gopher hole, tripped, and rolled down the rather steep hillside in their front yard. He broke 3 ribs. He's also 70 years old, has a pacemaker, and is on blood thinners. I think it may be time my in-laws start hiring someone local to mow their lawn from now on. ETA: Oh, yeah, he has rheumatoid arthritis, too! SERIOUSLY STOP DOING THIS.

Not necessarily; some people just look young. I often get pegged at about a decade younger than I actually am.

Questions when lunch is NOW: "Can you help me find a book? I think it might be blue."

Um...maybe we could give him Death Valley? Nobody wants to live there.

I know someone in D.C. Trust me - THEY don't want him, either! Bwahahahahaha! Practitioners of Vodun are pretty insular and cautious about who they let see things. They catch a lot of crap, so it's understandable. For now, the tourist trap is likely to be the closest you come to learning much about it for a good long while.

Look! A ribbon! And here are a couple of pictures of the Mark II armor up on stage. They're kind of blurry, but good enough to give you guys a general idea until the professional pics come in. The scary part is that I am now pondering the Mark III version for WorldCon. Ooo, you're ramping up into the meaty feels of the season.

Are you getting any thunder? Just endless days of rain can drag on, but thunderstorms are exciting.

The Costume Con Sci-fi/Fantasy Masquerade is over. The good: My Jean Grey armor won Best Interpretation! The bad: I have borked up my left foot somehow. I don't know how. I'm going to try ignoring the pain to see if it goes away. The ugly: There's also some broadcasters' conference here tonight. This is one of those weird hotels with all of the rooms arranged around a bunch of tiered balconies over the atrium. Those broadcaster people are rather loud.

I consider this to be highly probable. We don't have a WoB that states it outright, but it's a reasonable extrapolation of what we know.